Huerta Mesa

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Huerta Mesa
At the northern edge of Esperito City.
Vehicle in Just Cause
Type	Sports utility vehicle
Weapons	None
Rarity	Police - common Military - very rare
List of owners	San Esperito Police Department San Esperito Military

The Huerta Mesa is a vehicle in Just Cause (1).

Description

It's a four-wheel drive SUV, used by the police and rarely by the military. Like most vehicles in San Esperito, it has 2 seats.

Special features:

• As any other police vehicle, it has a siren.
• It has big bumpers at the front, sides and rear, for ramming.
• There's a frame in the cargo compartment, which splits the compartment in two.
• There's no rear windows.

It resembles a real world modern J80 and J100 Toyota Land Cruiser and slightly the Land Rover Freelander.

Coding special features

The police version Huerta Mesa always contains two police officers. There are the countryside officers with straw caps. They are both the skinny officers at heat levels 1-2. Both of which will be armed with Harker 357 Sawback revolvers, however, the driver will be replaced with a fatso officer at heat level 3 and up (he will be armed with a Moretti CCW Centurion).

The military variant will always contain two grunt soldiers wielding Aviv Pantheras at any point in time.

Versions and locations

Owner	Color	Locations
San Esperito Police Department	Blue	Spawns in traffic all over San Esperito, except in cities where it will be replaced with the Vaultier Sedan Patrol Compact. It can even spawn in Guerrilla stable provinces as per game coding. Shows up when you have government heat at heat levels 1-5. This is the case from the start of the game, up to I've Got the Power. They will only spawn in the countryside outside of missions and side-missions. From Guadalicano Choo Choo it will spawn in traffic from heat levels 1-4.
San Esperito Military	Gray	This variant is more common after Guadalicano Choo Choo, but can spawn after Some Like it Hotter, along with the other three military variants of the police vehicles, but only in Government stable towns and cities at heat level 5. This vehicle will stop showing up in towns and cities after Guadalicano Choo Choo. Can appear in an uncaptured military base at high Heat. Can uncommonly spawn anywhere in San Esperito except cities when you have Level 5 government heat - this is the case after Guadilicano Choo Choo upwards. Appears during the mission Some Enchanted Evening, when you have killed Luis and Tomaso and you are fleeing to the new safehouse.

Performance

It's quite good off-road, but the small turning circle makes it bad on a road at high speed.

Trivia

• Due to this vehicle's configuration not adhering to real life qualities of a proper prison transport vehicle, this vehicle would not qualify as one. The lack of a rear window would allow them to escape from the rear half of the cargo compartment and there's no extra wall between the drivers seat and the front half of the cargo compartment, so the prisoner would have to be tied up or held at gunpoint the whole time.
• Mesa is Spanish for table.
• One of the Just Cause 2 loading images shows two large 4-door Panau Police Department SUVs. The front end resembles the Huerta Mesa.
• It can arguably be the most common San Esperito Police Department vehicle, other than the Apache Army Model 842 since you can find one everywhere, even in provinces liberated by the Ejertico Revolucionario de Liberación (or more commonly known as the Guerillas). Of course, they will attack them at sight.
• The Wilforce jeeps (Trekstar, Range X, Trek II) take its place in Just Cause 2, although the open top versions are much more common.
• Like many other government vehicles in JC1, some of the decals are inverted.
• If you kill the driver while the lights and sirens are on, the sirens will go silent but the lights will stay on. You can then get in the vehicle and drive it without the sirens on. This works for every vehicle in Just Cause 1 equipped with a siren.
• "Huerta Mesa" may translate from Spanish into "Orchard Table."
• This vehicle is made by Huerta.
• The Faction test beta car may have been the original beta car that eventually evolved into this vehicle.

Gallery

San Esperito Police Department version

San Esperito Police Department.

A Huerta Mesa with the lights turned on but without the driver or siren. This is incredibly rare to encounter naturally.

Another one.

In the game demo. Another one is seen in the background.

San Esperito Military version

The San Esperito Military variant.

Note the inverted decal.

Miscellaneous

Both versions side-by-side.

In Some Enchanted Evening. Clearly this SUV is no match for a Ballard Centronel AAWV- 21.

Three faction vehicles involved in a shootout: Wallys GP of the Guerrillas at left, Huerta Mesa of the San Esperito Police Department at center, and Chevalier Street Bird De Luxe of the Rioja Cartel at right.